Luhansk governor Serhiy Gaidai said Lysychansk was suffering “catastrophic” damage, the last big city still held by Ukraine, and urged civilians to evacuate
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urged Western leaders to step up weapons supplies to his country as Russian forces fought to capture Lysychansk, the last big city still held by Ukrainian troops in eastern Luhansk province.
In Germany, U.S. President Joe Biden told allies “we have to stay together” against Russia in the face of its assault on Ukraine, now in its fifth month. Sanctions have effectively cut Russia out of the global financial system although with its exports curtailed, they have also created difficulties for countries way beyond Russia’s borders.
“Lysychansk, it was a horror, the last week,” said Elena, an elderly woman from the city who was among dozens of evacuees who arrived in the Ukrainian-held town of Pokrovsk by bus from frontline areas. “I already told my husband if I die, please bury me behind the house,” she said. Russian forces also control a swathe of territory in the south, including the port city of Mariupol, which fell after weeks of siege warfare which left it in ruins.Missiles hit a bridge in the central city of Cherkasy linking western Ukraine and the eastern battlefields on Sunday, Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych said.
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